Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 278 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781139028257
Content:
Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers, providing insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions
Note:
Theoretical views about pity and fear as aesthetic emotions: Drama and the emotions : an Indo-European connection? ; Gorgias : a strange trio, the poetic emotions ; Plato : from reality to tragedy and back ; Aristotle : the first 'theorist' of the aesthetic emotions -- Pity and fear within tragedies: An introduction ; Aeschylus : Persians ; Prometheus bound ; Sophocles : Ajax ; Euripides : Orestes -- Appendix: Catharsis and the emotions in the definition of tragedy in the Poetics
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-521-76510-7
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-107-52658-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
,
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Griechisch
;
Tragödie
;
Mitleid
;
Furcht
;
Philosophie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139028257
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